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November 7, 2012, 12:55 AM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Xbox Surface: Microsoft's 7-inch gaming tablet — Microsoft's secret project for a mini Xbox — Microsoft is building its own 7-inch gaming tablet. Multiple sources familiar with plans within Redmond have confirmed to The Verge that initial hardware planning for an Xbox Surface is underway.

Mark Hachman / ReadWrite:

A Microsoft ‘Xbox Surface’ Tablet Could Bridge PC-Mobile-Console Gaming

More: Ars Technica

Bloomberg:

Apple Says Samsung's Galaxy Note, Jelly Bean Infringe Patents — Apple Inc. (AAPL) told a judge that Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s Galaxy Note 10.1 device infringes its patents, and sought to add the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system to an existing lawsuit against Samsung in California.

More: VentureBeat, PhoneArena, BGR, TUAW, TechCrunch, MacRumors, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, The Verge, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Macgasm, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet and iPhone Hacks

Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:

Apple loses $368.2 million lawsuit to patent holding company VirnetX in E. Texas court ruling — According to Bloomberg, Apple has lost a lawsuit against VirnetX in a Texas courtroom late this evening and has been ordered to pay $368.2 million in damages. VirnetX sued Apple for infringing …

More: Bloomberg, CNET, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, The Next Web and AllThingsD

Tweets: @bloombergwest and @markgurman

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Well, It's Becoming Clear That Steve Jobs Was Flat-Out Wrong — An interesting thing has happened in the days since Apple released its new smaller iPad: — Many Apple devotees have said it will become THE iPad, at least in their own personal use. — Why? — Mainly because of weight and size.

More: Daring Fireball, SplatF and The Wirecutter

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Here's How Bravo's “Silicon Valley” Stars Pitch Start-Up Investors (Slides) — While Americans geared up for Election Day coverage on Monday evening, much of Silicon Valley was glued to a different channel. — It was the premiere of “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley,” the Bravo-produced reality show …

More: The Seattle Times, Business Insider, Betabeat, The Technology Chronicles, GeekWire and PE Hub Blog

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

MegaUpload redo is shut down even before debut — The government of Gambon said it plans to suspend the domain name that MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom planned to use to launch a new cloud-storage service. — We won't find the MegaUpload-replacement service anytime soon at Me.ga.

More: Gizmodo

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Makes Its New Search Results Design Without Sidebar Official, Gives Results “More Breathing Room” — Earlier today, we noticed that Google was showing an increasing number of its users a new search results page with more whitespace and without a sidebar.

More: CNET, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, Inside Search, Search Engine Land and The Next Web. Thanks:@thatdrew

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

Via @BarackObama, the Most Popular Tweet of All Time — This tweet, from @BarackObama, was sent about 30 minutes ago: … In that span of time, it became the most retweeted tweet of all time. In that span of time, it was retweeted — as of this writing — 298,318 times.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge, Business Insider, Forbes, BuzzFeed, Mashable! and ABCNEWS. Tweets: @barackobama

Samad Rizvi / The Pixar Times:

Pixar Names Building After Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs is often associated with Apple, but many often forgot that the visionary played a large role in the creation of Pixar. He financed the work at the studio long before it became profitable, pouring millions of his own money into keeping Pixar afloat …

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and Apple Gazette. Tweets: @ijunns

Tom Paseka / CloudFlare blog:

Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works — Today, Google's services experienced a limited outage for about 27 minutes over some portions of the Internet. The reason this happened dives into the deep, dark corners of networking.

More: Wired, Network World, VentureBeat and The Register

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Confirmed: Microsoft to retire its Messenger IM service in Q1 2013, moving 100M+ users to Skype in single act — Today Microsoft announced that its Messenger service will be discontinued in the first quarter of 2013. Part of that move is the integration of Messenger's 100 million+ users …

More: GigaOM and LiveSide.net

Tony Bates / The Big Blog:

Talk to your Messenger Contacts on Skype

Kip Kniskern / LiveSide.net:

Is “Cloud TV” coming to Microsoft? — Microsoft has made a number of moves recently to bring its devices and services into the living room, extending and expanding its Xbox offerings to far more than hard core gamers (although this is somewhat of a banner day for those gamers with tonight's release of Halo 4) …

More: CNET, The Next Web, digitaltrends.com, TUAW, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, TechSpot, SlashGear, Engadget and WinBeta

Horace Dediu / asymco:

The late smartphone adopter paradox — comScore reports that US smartphone penetration has decisively crossed over 50% in August. This should not come as a surprise as the penetration rate has been very linear. — Now that we've crossed this milestone, the thing to watch is the conversion rate …

More: Business Insider

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Yep, It's Coming: Google Wallet's Help Site Mentions The “Google Wallet Card” — Just in case you needed more proof that the leaked news revealing a forthcoming physical Google Wallet Card is indeed legit, you can just visit Google's own Help section on its Google Wallet website to catch a reference to the yet-to-be announced addition.

More: Android Police, Wired, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys, The Verge, SlashGear, Ars Technica, GadgeTell, Pocketables and Gotta Be Mobile

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

AT&T to pay feds $700,000 to settle overcharging dispute — The Federal Communications Commission announced Tuesday it has reached a $700,000 settlement with AT&T over claims that the carrier overcharged wireless data customers. — AT&T has agreed to pay $700,000 to the federal government …

More: The Verge, Ars Technica and SlashGear

Reuters:

Exclusive - Amazon to win EU e-book pricing tussle with Apple — (Reuters) - EU regulators are set to accept an offer by Apple and four book publishers allowing Amazon and other retailers to sell e-books more cheaply than Apple to end an antitrust investigation and avoid fines, two sources said on Monday.

More: TUAW, Mobile Marketing Watch, Good E-Reader, iPhone Hacks, The Register, Ars Technica and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Nexus 4 Is a Great Value With Small Improvements — Google's Android operating system is used on hundreds of smartphones and tablets. But the flagship Android devices, the ones the company calls “the best of Google,” are labeled Nexus. They are meant to show the world all that an Android device can be …

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Delicious Announces A New Design With A Focus On Community, Speed And Mobile — Just when you thought that the site Delicious was dead and gone, it's back...again. Since being acquired by AVOS, headed up by YouTube co-founders, the site has had a few revamps.

More: Delicious Blog

Suzanne Barlyn / Reuters:

Morgan Stanley tries to halt investor's Facebook arbitration — (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley is trying to halt a securities arbitration case filed by a Facebook investor who blames the firm and other companies for $1.9 million in damages stemming from the social media giant's botched initial public offering.

More: Gizmodo, Business Insider, CNET and AllFacebook

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don't Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future — For the past three years I have been pounding the table as loud as I can about the future opportunities in digital video. The concise guide is here. — My narrative has stayed pretty simple:

Thanks:@pkedrosky

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Guitar Hero co-creator unveils startup with a plan to mobilize the living room (exclusive interview) — As co-creator of Guitar Hero, Charles Huang shook up the video game world with cool new faux-guitar peripherals that injected new excitement into video games.

More: Joystiq, Engadget, Gamezebo, WebProNews, GamesIndustry International and AllThingsD

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Motorola reveals Atrix HD Developer Edition, highlights unlockable bootloader — Digging the idea of picking up an Atrix HD, but bummed about that whole “locked bootloader” situation? Problem solved. Motorola has just introduced the Atrix HD Developer Edition, which offers …

More: Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, BetaNews, HotHardware.com News, The Official Motorola Blog, PhoneNews.com and Droid Life

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Google co-founder Sergey Brin takes to Google+ to call for an end to party politics on election eve — On the eve of the US presidential election, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has taken quite the political stand on his Google+ account by pleading for the winner to withdraw …

More: Google+, Business Insider, The Register, TechCrunch, CNET, Digits and 9to5Google

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google releases Chrome 23: the last major browser finally gets Do Not Track support — Google today released Chrome version 23.0.1271.64 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can update to the latest release now using the browser's built-in silent updater, or you can download it directly from google.com/chrome.

More: Google Chrome Blog, BetaNews, Google Chrome Releases, BGR, 9to5Google, Engadget, GadgeTell, The Register, The Verge and TechCrunch. Thanks:@alex

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